Monrovia Canyon Park - Great Basin Fence Lizard
(Sceloporus occidentalis longipes)
An adult male, starting to display mating colors, sunning itself atop a boulder of Wilson Quartz Diorite.
Biologists have discovered that a protein in the blood of this lizard kills the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Bacteria,
carried by a tick that bites a lizard, are destroyed as the tick ingests the lizard's blood.
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